Ms. Rowe joined the Union Repertory Company (now the Melbourne Theatre Company) - in productions including Patrick White's, The Season at Sarsaparilla, Waltz of the Toreadors, Arms and the Man, Ghost Train; toured Australia with J.C. Williamson's Goodnight Mrs. Puffin (by Arthur Lovegrove), with Irene Handl.
From there into repertory and into the company of a West End lunch-time theatre, TheatreScope, doing weekly seasons of one act Tennessee Williams, Ionesco, Anouilh etc.
Invited back to the Melbourne Theatre Company at Russell Street; roles including: Nancy - The Knack, Raymonde - Flea in her Ear, Irina - Three Sisters, Mary Warren - The Crucible, Margery Pinchwife - The Country Wife, Sheila - A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Sandy - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Clarice - Servant of Two Masters, Marina - Pericles, Pip - Moby Dick, Grace - London Assurance, Charlotte - The Magistrate, Celemene - The Misanthrope, Gwendolyn - The Importance of Being Earnest.
With the South Australian Theatre Company: Phoebe - As You Like It, Daphne - Old King Cole, Jill - David Williamson's Handful of Friends.
In 2004 appeared with Lewis Fiander in Afterplay under the direction of Malcolm Robertson, a UTRC veteran, at FortyFive Downstairs, Flinders Lane Melbourne.